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question: The southern boobook is the smallest and most common what in Australia?

option: Owl

answer: 1

question: Denys Shmyhal is which country’s prime minister?

option: Ukraine’s

answer: 1

question: Who is No. 18 for AFL club Port Adelaide?

option: Zak Butters

answer: 1

question: Pierre is the capital of which American state?

option: South Dakota

answer: 1

question: Name the former Japanese prime minister who was assassinated on July 8.

option: Shinzo Abe

answer: 1

question: Who lit the cauldron flame during the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney?

option: Cathy Freeman

answer: 1

question: By population, what is Indonesia’s largest city?

option: Jakarta

answer: 1

question: What is Perth’s major racecourse?

option: Ascot

answer: 1

question: Which common girl’s name is used to describe a female donkey?

option: Jenny

answer: 1

question: What do the letters WET stand for in Australia’s WET rebate?

option: Wine Equalisation Tax

answer: 1

question: Which city is Italy’s fashion and design centre?

option: Milan

answer: 1

question: Who wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress?

option: John Bunyan

answer: 1

question: Which element has the lowest atomic number?

option: Hydrogen (1)

answer: 1

question: The Equator passes through how many South American countries?

option: Three (Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil)

answer: 1

question: What does lugubrious mean?

option: Mournful, dismal or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated or unrelieved manner

answer: 1

question: In which European country are the Appenzell Alps?

option: Switzerland

answer: 1

question: Television soap opera Knots Landing was a spin-off of which series?

option: Dallas

answer: 1

question: Britain and Denmark both have coastlines on which sea?

option: North Sea

answer: 1

question: What is the 11th sign of the zodiac?

option: Aquarius

answer: 1

question: How many heads does the black eagle in the centre of the Albanian flag have?

option: Two

answer: 1

question: Who was captain of St Kilda’s 1966 VFL premiership team?

option: Darrel Baldock

answer: 1

question: What does the acronym M*A*S*H stand for?

option: Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

answer: 1

question: Who won the men’s singles final at Wimbledon on July 10?

option: Novak Djokovic

answer: 1

question: “To meet sharer” is an anagram of which Nobel prize-winning missionary?

option: Mother Teresa

answer: 1

question: Which SANFL team is nicknamed the Panthers?

option: South Adelaide

answer: 1

question: Which Australian author wrote the best-selling 2005 book The Secret River?

option: Kate Grenville

answer: 1

question: Which physicist is famous for his 1905 theory of relativity?

option: Albert Einstein

answer: 1

question: CLP is the currency code of which South American country?

option: Chile

answer: 1

question: In the 1972 hit Sylvia’s Mother by Dr Hook and The Medicine Show, what is the title character’s surname?

option: Mrs Avery

answer: 1

question: What did Time magazine call its Machine of the Year in 1982?

option: Computer

answer: 1

question: Who is the US Secretary of State?

option: Antony Blinken

answer: 1

question: What is the first prime number after 7000?

option: 7001

answer: 1

question: Maui and Lanai are two of the major islands of which American state?

option: Hawaii

answer: 1

question: Which Teletubby is green?

option: Dipsy

answer: 1

question: Who became prime minister of Australia in January 1966?

option: Harold Holt

answer: 1

question: What is the star sign of a person born on November 12?

option: Scorpio

answer: 1

question: What is cullet?

option: Broken or waste glass re-used in glassmaking

answer: 1

question: What nationality was composer Olivier Messiaen?

option: French

answer: 1

question: What is Ireland’s longest river?

option: Shannon

answer: 1

question: In which British city is the Trooping the Colour ceremony held annually?

option: London

answer: 1

question: In 1995, who won the last Formula One Grand Prix held in Adelaide?

option: Damon Hill

answer: 1

question: What kind of creature is a John Dory?

option: Fish

answer: 1

question: Algeria shares its longest land border with which country?

option: Morocco

answer: 1

question: Robinson Crusoe’s companion was named after which day of the week?

option: Friday

answer: 1

question: The wedge-tailed eagle is the bird emblem of which Australian state or territory?

option: Northern Territory

answer: 1

question: Shane Warne played for which Big Bash League team from 2011-13?

option: Melbourne Stars

answer: 1

question: In 2016, which US singer-songwriter had a hit with 24K Magic?

option: Bruno Mars

answer: 1

question: What nationality is model Shanina Shaik?

option: Australian

answer: 1

question: With two words, complete the title of this 1892 British music hall song: The Man Who Broke the Bank at …

option: Monte Carlo

answer: 1

question: What is the longest muscle in the human body?

option: Sartorius (in the thigh

answer: 1